Walking Round The World

[Canary42]

I've just had a snake-oil-for-the-feet spam e-mail, which
includes the following statistic :-

:: The average person walks 100,000 miles in their
:: lifetime – that’s three laps around the world.

Who would have believed it. I guess that at 80
years of age I've done a couple of laps by now. WOW.

[johnny.5]

I always knew you could walk on water canary

[Canary42]

Sorry Johnny, you're not right ;-)

[Yeoma]

That would be a lapse - can a canary not fly? ;-)

[tonyav]

Did you take any short cuts ( walk through the Chanel tunnel ) ;-)

[Canary42]

Flying ain't walking ;-)

[Yeoma]

Birdcage Walk? Gottit!

[New Judge]

//: The average person walks 100,000 miles in their lifetime//

I would dispute that. Assuming an average "walking" lifetime of, say, 70 years, it would suggest the average distance covered is around thirty miles each and every week - over four miles each and every day. Some people may do that; some may even do more than that. But I would suggest that the vast majority of people do nothing like that over their lifetime.

//...that’s three laps around the world.//

It's four. The Earth has a circumference of just under 25,000 miles.

[Zacs-Master]

Judging by the rotundness of a great deal of the general populace of the British isles, I’d say NJ is correct. He’s also correct about the circumference of the Earth.
Oh dear,Canary.

[jno]

Judging by the rotundness of a great deal of the general populace of the British isles

the British isles, lol. There are kids in the third world walking miles a day just for water. Do they somehow not count toward an average?

[Zacs-Master]

Probably.

[jno]

come on, ZM, one post about coincidences and you've hit 6/6 on the Latest Posts board

[jno]

oh no, I just burgered that up. Apologies, I wasn't thinking straight.

[New Judge]

//Do they somehow not count toward an average?//

Of course they do. But we don't know what average the snake-oil salesman is talking about. I considered the average of UK residents.

[douglas9401]

Coincidentally I was pondering homosexuality

[Zacs-Master]

Well, everyone has to have a hobby, Doooogie

[Zacs-Master]

Yeah, jno! Sheesh man